Midterm PRoject

We traveled to the Hishhorn museum for class in a pursuit of Video art. Video art is art that is done by the use of video as a medium, This art differs from the television shows or programs which your average American is daily bombarded with in that it is not intended to hold your attention or raise viewership, to make an advertising slot more desirable, instead video art like all art simply seeks to evoke an emotion in the viewer. Now, with services like You Tube it has become possible for the artist to present his work to an audience all around the globe simultaneously. Because it can be so widely available it can appeal to those of a particular group or ideology, it can be of many different types and designs, it can show many different facets, when you take an art form and allow it to use a mass distribution network like the internet it no longer needs to appeal to an audiences in every area, even if a piece only was to appeal to one person in New York, that person can see the work on the internet, where as with less then digital art, the art has a material side which presents it from being everywhere at once and in the same moment means that it must have a place of exhibition which it can be presented from, and which it will draw large enough crowds to to cover its expense. . The piece that I Actually found most engaging in the form of video art was the image with the smoke and the lines, projected based upon the movements of the audience. By fooling with the projector and film, and creating an environment, the artist leaves the audience to make the art work by their own movements, this creation of parameters within which others actually make the real image. Just my musings.